Quotes About Marriage

Not every relationship will end in a blissful marriage. It's better to have a failed and disappointed courtship than a failed and toxic marriage.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

The highest gift and favor of God is a pious, kind, godly, and domestic wife, with whom thou mayest live peaceably, and to whom thou mayest intrust all thy possessions, yea, thy body and thy life.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I'm happy for all of my homosexual friends who can freely marry. I'm happy for all my friends in college receiving financial aid.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

Death stands behind every bride, every groom.

At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.

To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?